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After 50 years, hula hoops are hip again
WASHINGTON -- The ponytailed photographer pulled up to the Tidal Basin. He wheeled a sound system out to a shady spot, whipped out three giant blue-and-purple rings, turned up the techno dance music and started gyrating and jamming.
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Titanic sea change
Why hit movies no longer have hit theme songs
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Musician celebrates sounds of old L.A.
LOS ANGELES -- It was more than 50 years ago, but Ry Cooder remembers it as if it were last week: He was 8 years old, and Johnny Cash came on the radio singing Hey Porter .
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Fall cancellations throw fans out of harmony
From road trips to recorded hits, classical-music lovers are planning ways to survive without the Columbus Symphony.
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Celebrating a tiny nation's steel soul
By the sweet ring of steel drums and under banners of red, white and black -- a symbol of their nation's ethnic diversity -- dozens of Delawareans on Sunday celebrated their tiny island nation of Trinidad and Tobago.
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Uganda: Ragga Dee Makes 20
Ragga Dee celebrated 20 years in the music industry on Friday, but clearly, it has taken more than talent for Uganda's most consistent and persistent artiste to keep his music rotating on the local airwaves.
AllAfrica.com |
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Coldplay's palate pleasers charm Wachovia crowd
The world's most palatable rock-and-roll band came to the sold-out Wachovia Center in South Philadelphia on Friday, working hard to please.
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Karim Fanous
A rising singer-songwriter on the rock/pop scene with a soaring, powerful voice that has the delicacy but intensity to transport with his personal, warm lyrics and upbeat style, 2007 was a breakthrough year for Karim Fanous.
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At World Café Live, improvisational lineup impresses
It took a while for Sonic Liberation Front to adjust its sound Saturday at World Café Live. So the group's four percussionists led off with Yoruban folkloric songs, hinting at the offbeat Afro-Cuban explorations to come.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Lonestar's Amazed named most popular wedding song
Love ballad Amazed has been named the most popular wedding song.
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BY OUR READERS: Remembering the singing group The Brockton Harmoneers
For more than 55 years, the Brockton chapter of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America, (SPEBSQSA) was active in the city and the area.
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Looking forward
A look at events coming up this week... Mozart comes to Woodstock Celebrating its 22nd season, the Woodstock Mozart Festival begins Saturday and runs for three consecutive weekends.
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Missoula composer’s work to be played at Arts Across America
It is a huge festival to celebrate a huge anniversary: 35 days of performances by some of the premier artists in America, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s signing of the National Cultural Center Act.
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Churches reach out to troubled area
It was God's light, not the red and blue of police lights that shone in the VLA area of the city this weekend. A large tent was erected on the grounds of Carney Hill Elementary School in the heart of the part of town dubiously nicknamed 'The 'Hood' and for four days, songs of praise rang out. Five different church organizations got together to lead the four days of gospel outreach, all in ...
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Best Buy to open in-store music centersABC 7 News
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Pretty good, when all is said and done
VARIOUS ARTISTS Mamma Mia! -- The Movie Soundtrack Decca ABBA's music is so infectious that it can make a musical plot in which beautiful people live on an even more beautiful Greek isle and just break out into ABBA songs instead of normal conversation like ''Pass the tanning oil, please'' seem perfectly natural.
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Nonfiction review: 'Heavy Metal Islam'
Heavy Metal Islam Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam By Mark LeVine Three Rivers Press; 296 pages; $15.95 paperback Anyone who spends time in the Middle East can't help but be piqued by the "youth bulge" in the region: Sixty-five percent...
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'Pericles': S.F. Shakespeare Festival hoedown
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER)Pericles: Romance. By William Shakespeare. Directed by Kenneth Kelleher. With Michael C. Storm, Emily Jordan, Jessica Powell, Mary Knoll, Gary S. Martinez et al. (Through Sept. 21 in Bay Area parks. San Francisco Shakespeare Festival's...
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Gary Valenciano obsessed with making an impact on his audiences
Muling ininterbyu ng PEP (Philippine Entertainment Portal) si Gary Valenciano sa isinaayos na appointment ng publicist ng Genesis Entertainment na si Jemuel Salterio sa Essensuals by Tony & Guy sa Ortigas kamakailan, at napag-alaman naming kagagaling lang ni Mr. Pure Energy sa Zamboanga sa isa uling successful concert doon.
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Newsom-Siebel get hitched on a ranch
Sidesaddle on a black stallion, the bride rode slowly to the wedding site, a meadow along the Bitterroot River in Stevensville, Mont. Her father was by her side, on a black-and-white American Paint. Twenty or so members of the Missoula Symphony played a...
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Volunteers ready grounds for second annual Reggae Rising
Special to the Daily Journal Hundreds of volunteers are busily preparing the site on the Eel River in Piercy for the second annual Reggae Rising festival, which will be held August 1-3 in Redway.
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Skate-rink job memories linger
In Steve Peck's younger day at the Everett Skate Deck, kids did the hokey-pokey and conga dance. Def Leppard was huge. Remember at roller skating rinks, when skaters cruised around and around to "Beer Barrel Polka" on the organ?
Everett Herald |
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Happenings
Arts & music
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Take note of new starter band
DEREK Capewell of Birkdale plays trombone in Urban Swing, trumpet in Musical Chairs, cello in the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra and drums with St John Ambulance.
Bayside Bulletin |
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'Idol' finally rocks and it's Daughtry's fault
Rock band Daughtry visits Manila for the first time and finds "home" in Eastwood City.
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